A Day to Be Happy
Music documentary for the band "Kulturno Umetnicki Rabotnici" (Cultural Art Workers).
The question whether the punk is dead is constantly thrown around, as well as what is punk and if this or that is punk enough. "A Day to Be Happy" is a movie in the shape of a testimony about the constant fight of few musical individuals not to be put in the bin where music has some purpose, some genre, some goal or some fee.
The film uses the band Kulturno Umetnicki Rabotnici as the main protagonist to show an intimate conversation with some of the most important figures of the Macedonian alternative scene.
What is meaning of the word in-law"? How is Thursday more important from the rest of the days in the week? Who is in charge for making "turshija" and who is in charge of rakija, during their 15 years of making music? One is for sure: It's easy to get in KUR, but getting out is trickier.
So, A Day to Be Happy.
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ljubica PopovskaDirector
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Ljubica PopovskaWriter
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Vladimir StojcevskiProducer
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Goran StojilkovicProducer
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Project Type:Documentary
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Runtime:1 hour 5 minutes
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Completion Date:November 20, 2014
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Country of Origin:North Macedonia
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Country of Filming:Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
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Language:Macedonian
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Shooting Format:HD
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Aspect Ratio:16:9
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Film Color:Color
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First-time Filmmaker:No
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Student Project:No
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Cinedays - Festival of European FilmSkopje
November 20, 2014
domestic -
DORF - Festival of Documentary Rock FilmVinkovci
Croatia
March 13, 2015
Croatian premiere -
DORF - Festival of Documentary Rock FilmOsijek
Croatia
March 14, 2015 -
Skopje Cinema City Film FestivalSkopje
Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
June 2, 2015 -
Manaki Brothers Film FestivalBitola
Macedonia, the former Yugoslav Republic of
September 26, 2015 -
Balkan Film & Food FestivalPogradec
Albania
August 3, 2016
Albanian premiere -
dokuMFestZenica
Bosnia and Herzegovina
August 30, 2016
Bosnian premiere -
FerFilm FestivalUrosevac (Ferizaj)
Kosovo
September 3, 2016 -
Dok'N'Ritam - Music documentary film festivalBelgrade
Serbia
June 3, 2017
Serbian premiere
Ljubica Popovska was born and raised in Skopje. Since elementary school she visited lots of drama classes, so in the year 2000 she wrote and directed the first children play for a young female partisan. She studied Visual Arts at the New Bulgarian University in Sofia, Bulgaria where she met with few Bulgarian music artists and directed short music videos for them. In 2008 her short film "Me and you" was part of the student selection at the Skopje Film Festival. In 2010 she co - directed and edited the documentary "Life N.2" for the Macedonian Archery Champion in Paralympics Vanco Karanfilov. "A day to be happy!" is her first feature documentary.